| rmccowen |
A couple of notes.
First, I'd made a couple of small purchases (.pdf versions of classic modules) at Paizo, but had never gotten involved in the community. Since I started keeping track of RPG Superstar, I've noticed that commenters here seem almost universally smart, polite, and genuinely supportive--and that's a rare thing!
Second, I'd appreciate any feedback anyone has on my item. It was the favorite among my gaming buddies, although in hindsight it has a hint of Bad Travel Item about it. Also in hindsight, I would have used arcane eye as the prereq, and bumped the price up to 750-1,000gp.
Cartographer's Vellum
This piece of calfskin parchment appears faded and worn, and faint
traces of old ink are visible, as if it had been scraped and re-used
many times.
In order to activate a cartographer's vellum, the user must
concentrate for ten minutes. During this time, ink rises to the
surface of the parchment, creating an accurate map of the surrounding
area. The map can be at any scale the user wishes, but it is unable
to show any feature more than 500 feet from the spot where it is
activated.
The map shows only visible features of rooms or terrain; elements such
as traps and secret doors do not appear. It shows only features that
are at approximately the same elevation as the user (so a small valley
or single level of a wizard's tower could be mapped, but an entire
dungeon complex could not).
Once a piece of cartographer's vellum is successfully activated, the
map is permanent, and the parchment becomes nonmagical.
Faint divination; CL 5th; Craft Wondrous Item, clairaudience/clairvoyance; Price 500 gp.
Finally, I'm finding that my thoughts on submissions have tended to mirror (at least one of) the judges', and I also tend to see a lot of places I'd rewrite a mechanic for clarity or smooth out someone's grammar or word choice. I've considered trying to get into editing before, but never really seriously... how would someone get a start as an editor in the RPG industry? How might that process be different from trying to get started as an RPG designer?